'Fire behaviour' presentation slideshows

S-185 Fire Entrapment Avoidance

S-185 Fire Entrapment Avoidance. Course Outline. 2-3 hour classroom training session. Target Audience. Province of British Columbia staff Local government staff First nations groups Industry personnel Contractors. Text Page: 1. Course Outline.

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Loyalist Township Emergency Services

Loyalist Township Emergency Services. Fire Behaviour. FIRE BEHAVIOUR - INTRODUCTION.

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Wildfire Management Branch

Wildfire Management Branch. Orientation Information for Incoming Fire Behaviour Specialists. Welcome to BC. The total land area is 93 million hectares. Forests predominate, covering over 55% of the area. Extensive grasslands, wetlands and alpine areas make up the remainder.

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The value of scientific data confessions of an applied environmental scientist

The value of scientific data confessions of an applied environmental scientist. Neil Burrows Science Division Department of Environment & Conservation Western Australia. Becoming a scientist; destiny or serendipity?. From fighter pilot to fire ecologist?.

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S-330 Task Force Leader

S-330 Task Force Leader. Pre- Engagement. Unit 2 Objectives. Understanding Delegated Objectives Various planning functions Significance of time frames Leaders intent Communications Heavy Equipment considerations Safety. Planning. Dig the well before you are thirsty.

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Debris Management in Alberta Fuel Management Workshop October 2003

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B.C. Wildfire Service

B.C. Wildfire Service. 10 year fire averages: 1 847 fires 115 464 ha 39% Human caused, 61% lightning caused The fire season in BC is generally considered to be from April through October. However, in the dry southern parts of the province the season may stretch from March into November. Fire.

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Fire Behaviour

Fire Behaviour. Chemistry of Combustion. Aim. To provide students with information to give them an understanding of the behaviour of fire. Learning Outcomes At the end of the session students will be able to:. Describe the characteristic development and behaviour of a range of fires

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Canadian Wildland Fire Information System

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Simulating global fire regimes & biomass burning with vegetation-fire models

Simulating global fire regimes & biomass burning with vegetation-fire models. Kirsten Thonicke 1 , Allan Spessa 2 & I. Colin Prentice 1 1 2. to estimate global fire emissions: Wildfire emission models

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Fire Weather Science Fire Weather System Project EcoConnect -Fire Implementation, June 2013

Fire Weather Science Fire Weather System Project EcoConnect -Fire Implementation, June 2013. April 2011. NZ Fire Danger Rating System. NZFDRS derived from Canadian equivalent, the CFFDRS outputs used to assist decision-making across 4 Rs of fire management.

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Forest fires: from research to stakeholder needs

WP6 Climate services for the forest fire sector. Forest fires: from research to stakeholder needs. C. Giannakopoulos, M. Hatzaki , A. Karali , A. Roussos, E. Athanasopoulou. National Observatory of Athens Greece. Data used in the study. Study Area: Greece. Study Period: 19 83 - 1997.

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Fire Regime and Risk in The Kananaskis Valley

Brad Hawkes, Natural Resources Canada, Pacific Forestry Centre Rick Arthur, Environment and Sustainable Resource Development, Wildfire Management. Fire Regime and Risk in The Kananaskis Valley. 1890 fire burned over part of 1958 fire. 1916 Photo. Dude Succession. 1974. 1981. 2009.

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ES_31_1, Spain, Galicia Val de Nocedo 2008 WP 9.1 Examples of prescribed burning and its effects

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The 2009 Victorian Bushfires: Inter-governmental Cooperation in Practice

The 2009 Victorian Bushfires: Inter-governmental Cooperation in Practice. Christine Nixon Adviser Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction and Recovery Authority October 2010. Extreme conditions up to and on 7 February put Victoria on a high level of alert.

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Fire Behaviour Triangle

Fire Behaviour Triangle. Each factor is important in determining bushfire behaviour. Each factor is affected by and in turn affects each other element. (Source: Kevin Tolhurst ). Relationship between FDI and Fire Behaviour Factor Dominance. Fire Danger Index.

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